7-Year-Old Unvaccinated Colorado Girl Dies of Flu Symptoms After Going into a Coma

Selina Nguyen, from Denver, started feeling sick just before Christmas. Her health declined over the next two days, and on Dec. 23 she went into a coma and was rushed to the hospital.

Her family learned that Nguyen had the H1N1 flu virus, and were “praying for a miracle,” a friend wrote on a GoFundMe page. But her brain was unresponsive for those seven weeks, and surgeries to relieve the pressure in her skull had no effect.

Nguyen’s family worked with the hospital to try “every avenue” to help the “loving, kind hearted and giving child,” but after weeks without any brain activity they had to make the “difficult decision” to take her off life support. She passed away on Feb. 10 with her family by her side.

Nguyen’s funeral service and memorial will be held on Saturday and Sunday, and the money raised from the GoFundMe page — which is now well past its goal of $5,000 — will go to her medical costs. Any remainder will be donated to charity, “because that is what Selina would have wanted.”